update · May 22, 2024

TrackMania Desert Update Brings New Car, Blocks, and Bug Fixes

TrackMania's latest update introduces the Desert car, new blocks, editor items, and Spring 2024 offline tracks. The patch also addresses input issues, map editor bugs, and UI display errors.

TrackMania's Desert update introduces the Desert car alongside a massive wave of editor pieces, UI tweaks, and bug fixes across game modes.

New Content and Blocks

The Desert car arrives alongside a colorshift shading feature for the Desert, Rally, and Snow cars. The update adds diagonal chicanes, deco cliffs, water ramp zones, small platform loop starts, and structured support colorization. Spring 2024 offline tracks are now available, and the Desert car replaces the Rally car on the home page and in block helper messages.

Gameplay and Input Fixes

A bug where car switch gates caused massive boost has been fixed, along with an issue where analog devices failed to reach 100 percent input when using smooth steering. Cam7 switch errors during races are also resolved.

Editor and Visual Corrections

Developers fixed broken lightmap UVs on platform cliff materials, holes created by small loop starts, and inverted signs on special gates. Wood textures on platform specials and rally road dirt have been replaced with cliff textures. Additionally, club tags now display correctly next to MVP names in ranked mode live rankings.

Why this patch matters

This substantial content drop expands TrackMania with the Desert vehicle and a large set of editor blocks while cleaning up long-standing collision and input bugs.